On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:14:25AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:55:25AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > I would like to propose enabling[1] the GCC hardening patches that Ubuntu > > uses[2]. > > How do they work? Do they also change the free-standing compiler or only > the hosted one? There is a lot of software, which (I would say) missuse > the hosted compiler to build non-userspace-code, including the Linux > kernel.
It seems the kernel will not be happy if the stack protector is switched on unconditionally: http://osdir.com/ml/linux-kernel/2009-10/msg07064.html Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gcc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
